ourselves in the presence of his divine majesty, under a sense of our need and misery? (5.) What is the third general requisite of acceptable prayer? What do you mean by fully? (t.) What by persuaded? (u.) What by notwithstanding? (v.) What by unworthy? (w.) What by the expression for the sake of? (x.) What by certainly? (y.) What by hear? (z.) What by prayer (aa.) How do you prove, that in order to offer acceptable prayer to God, we must be fully persuaded, that he, notwithstanding we are unworthy of it, will, for Christ's sake, certainly hear our prayer? (6.) Upon what is this full persuasion, that God will certainly hear our prayer, based? What do you mean by promised? (bb.) How do you prove, that God has promised in his word, to hear the prayer of faith? (7.)

Q. 118.-What hath God commanded us to ask of him?

A. All things necessary for soul and body; which Christ has comprised in that prayer he himself has taught us.

EXPLANATIONS.

a. Necessary, requisite; needful.

b. Soul, the spiritual and immortal part of man. c. Body, the material and mortal part of man.

d. Christ our Lord, Jesus, the Son of God and the Savior of mankind.

e. Comprised, briefly comprehended.

f. That prayer, the specimen of the manner of addressing God, given us by Christ, commonly known as the Lord's prayer.

g. Taught us, communicated to us the knowledge of.

DOCTRINES SEPARATED AND PROVED.

1. God hath commanded us to ask of him all things necessary for the soul. Math. vi, 33-But seek ye first the king

dom of God and his righteousness. Math. xxvi. 41Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. 1 Thess. v. 23.

2. God hath commanded us to ask of him, all things necessary for the body. Psalm civ. 27-These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season. Prov. xxx. 8, 9-Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

3. All things necessary for soul and body, which God has commanded us to ask of him, Christ has comprised in the prayer he himself has taught us. Math. vi. 8, 9, &c.Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. After this manner, therefore, pray ye: Our Father, &c.

EXERCISES.

What is the one hundred and eighteenth question? What is the answer returned to the question? What do you mean by necessary? (a.) What by the soul? (b.) How do you prove, that God hath commanded us to ask of him, all things necessary for the soul? (1.) What do you mean by the body? (c.) How do you prove, that God hath commanded us to ask of him, all things necessary for the body? (2.) What is further affirmed in the answer? Whom do you mean by Christ our Lord? (d.) What by the word comprised? (e.) What by that prayer? (f.) What by the expression taught us? (g.) How do you prove, that all things necessary for soul and body, which God hath commanded us to ask of him, Christ has comprised in the prayer he himself has taught us? (3.)

Q. 119. What are the words of that pray

er?

A.-Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our

daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever. Amen.

EXPLANATIONS.

a. The words, the language in which it is expressed. b. That prayer, the Lord's prayer referred to in the pre

vious answer.

EXERCISES.

What is the one hundred and nineteenth question? What do you mean by the expression the words? (a.) To what does the phrase that prayer refer? (b.) What is the answer returned to the question? Of how many parts does this prayer consist? [Three.] What are they? [A preface, petitions, and a conclusion.] What is the preface? How many petitions are there? [Six.] What is the first? What the second? What the third? What the fourth? What the fifth? What the sixth? What is the conclusion of the Lord's prayer?

XLVI. Lord's Day.

Q: 120.-Why hath Christ commanded us to address God thus, "OUR FATHER?"

A. That immediately, in the very beginning of our prayer, he might excite in us a child-like reverence for, and confidence in God, which are the foundation of our prayer; namely, that God is become our father in Christ, and will much less deny us what we ask of him in true faith, than our parents will refuse us earthly things.

EXPLANATIONS.

a. Commanded, ordered; directed.

b. Address, to apply to by the use of words.

c. Our Father, God who sustains to us, in an especial sense, the relation of a parent.

d. Immediately, at once; without the intervention of any thing else.

e. Beginning, commencement.

f. Prayer, address to the Deity.

g. Excite, produce; give rise to.

h. Child-like, resembling that which a child exercises towards a parent.

i. Reverence, fear mingled with respect and esteem. j. Confidence, trust; reliance.

k. Foundation, basis; that upon which the whole rests. 1. Is become our father, sustains to us the relation of a parent in a special sense.

m. Much less, with a smaller degree of probability.

n. Deny, refuse to grant.

D. Ask, request; seek to obtain by words.

p. True faith, sincere confidence in him. q. Parents, father and mother.

r. Refuse, decline to grant.

8. Earthly, belonging exclusively to this world.

DOCTRINES SEPARATED AND PROVED.

1. Christ has commanded us to address God as our Father, that he might immediately, in the very beginning of our prayer, excite in us a child-like reverence for him. Heb. xii. 9 and 28-Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence; shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits and live?. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear.

2. Christ has commanded us to address God as our Father, that he might immediately, in the very beginning of our prayer, excite in us a child-like confidence in him. Isaiah Ixiii. 16-Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. Eph. iii. 12-In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

3. A child-like reverence for and confidence in God are the foundation of our prayer. James i. 6-8-But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

4. God is become our Father in Christ. John i. 12-But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. Eph. i. 5-Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.

5. God as our Father, will much less deny us what we ask of him in true faith, than our parents will refuse us earthly things. Math. vii. 11-If ye then being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Luke xi. 13-Isaiah xlix. 15-Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Psalm ciii. 13-Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

EXERCISES.

What is the one hundred and twentieth question? What do you mean by commanded? (a.) What by to address 2 (b.) Whom by our Father? (c.) What answer is returned to the question? What do you mean by immediately? (d.) What by beginning? (e.) What by prayer? (f) What by excite? (g.) What by child-like? (h.) What by reverence? (i.) How do you prove, that Christ has commanded us to address God as our Father, that he might immediately, in the very beginning of our prayer, excite in us a child-like reverence for him? (1.) What do you mean by confidence? (j.) How do you prove, that Christ has commanded us to address God as our Father, that he might immediately, in the very beginning of our prayer, excite in us a child-like confidence in him? (2)